Better Cell Phone Reception

There have been in the recent years great improvement in cell phone reception gadgets and I have talked about some in the past. Here are a few great cell phone enhancers to help you get better reception.

Links:
IntelliTouch
@Home HotSpot
Wi-Ex zBoost

Flat screen sound bar

Have a new flat screen but dislike the sound. Take a look at Sound Bar. It's a great solution for flat panel monitors and the design is made to increase immersive sound quality. You be the judge.

WiTricity

There a new technology out there named WiTricity and what it does is that it easily recharges your portable devices. That means if you had a cell phone, PDA, or mobile laptop, as soon as you go into a WiTricity room, the portable devices get recharged. The process is still in experimental mode, but hopefully there can be some use for this great technology.

How much Rent are people paying in your area

Make sure the next time you move, you compare rental prices in your area. It gives you a ballpark of what you should at least be paying when compared to others.

New Job Search Engine

Next time your job hunting check out this new job search engine. It uses a keyword to search job websites, newspapers and company webpages.

To All Verizon Wireless Customers

Hurry up and opt out or you can bet that your cellular telephone number will be given to telemarketers to be shared. This is a no, no for Verizon.

Mobopic

This is the easiest free way to create a wallpaper for your cell phone. Just upload the picture you want to make a wallpaper for and in a few minutes, the magic is done. Some pictures will require resizing and cropping. But the rest is real simple.

Take TV Player

It's a creative way to take a video from your computer so that you can watch it via your television. The 8 gig flash drive saves your video from your computer. When you plug in the flash drive into the television dock, your movie is only minutes away to be viewed. It's an affordable solution to watch videos.

Tokbox

Let's just say this is the new way of video net sharing that will change the way we socialize. No software to install and you talk to everyone via your browser. You control who can see you. Video networking is now easy to do.

Stuff Safe

Need a home inventory software to keep track of your possessions. This free site will make your life simple.

Free Hard Drive from Microsoft

Looking for a free storage place for your files, Microsoft is here to help. Your going to need a Windows Live Id and you'll be able to upload for now 1 gig of hard drive space. Unfortunately Microsoft has arrived a little to late to offer storage space.

Google Doc's go Mobile

Google doc's has gone mobile and the batttle has begun to see if it can compete with Microsoft Office. The goal will be to provide similar services and gain user confidence, by being one step ahead of Microsoft. Hope Google can achieve it's goal.

Hard Drive Toaster

Looking for an easy hard drive hook up device instead of a USB to store your important data or music files. This gadget is a must have. Now swapping more than one hard drive will be a breeze.

Totalidea TweakVI

Here's a great tweaking software for Windows Vista. You can now shape your operating system and make everything simple. Make a one click Shutdown, configure hard drive details, access your Windows CD Keys, optimize the cache, change system folders with out needing to know how. Customizing Windows is simple.

Deezer

New music site with no fees, no registration and you don't need really much to listen to your music.

Free books via pdf

Looking for a site to give you free books via pdf format. Look no longer this site make it easy so that you can be portable. Reading is fundamental.

Les Concierges

Need a concierge for all. Depending on your service level, your over the phone assistant can set you up with trips, Super Bowl tickets, reserve squash seats, and score hard to get reservations. All that it requires is membership to these elite services.

In Case of Emergency Cell Phone Tips

Have a cell phone and want to make sure your family or love ones are contacted if your in an accident. Follow this procedure that many paramedics use since 2005 have been using. It's called ICE. What you simply do is change your cell phone emergency contact names to include ICE (ex. ICE-mom, ICE-dad, ICE-daughter) and in case of an emergency police or hospital staff are able to notify your loved ones.

Language Line Services

Need a 24 hour language translator, then this site will come into great help. Think of it as a language hot line in your hours of need.

800 TAXI CAB

Need a taxi cab service throughout the Country. Next time just call this number and they will dispatch you to a local independently owned cab company in any metro area.

411 Song

Hear a song but can't identify the artist or label. Don't worry anymore. A new service is here to help you find that song by just dialing an 800 number, signing in and just playing that favorite song you want so bad. The fees are not cheap but if you figure the time and energy spent looking for that song. This site will give you the best results.

Other iPod Specialty sites

Want to trade your iPod for something else. This website will easily help you swap your music player. Link

Want to get a ECO Content music player. This site is will help you do just that.
Link

Broken iPod

Have a broken iPod and just want to get rid of it. Here is a great website to get rid of your damaged iPod's. You can get an instant offer via Paypal in 24 hours.

More Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are some more useful Windows keyboard short cuts you should always remember to make your typing job easier.

PocketExpress

Need an official airline guide to over 75,000 departures from 3,500 airports. Take a look and download for free.

Online Conferencing Services

Looking for some good online conferencing services to consult on ideas and presentations.

The following companies have gone a long way to make online conferencing simple:
Adobe Acrobat Connect
Link
Cisco Webex MeetMeNow
Link
Citrix GotoMeeting
Link

USB 3.0

What goes 10 time the speed of any connection, it's backward compatible and will be finalized by the end of 2008. If you haven't figured it out already it's USB 3.0. Who can't wait for excessive speed like this?

Transfer Files online

If your looking for an online file transfer site to send a file to a friend consider the following sites.

Links
100mb per File
500mb per File
2gig Files
10 gig Files

Enth the Sports Search Engine

Want to know sports statistics this site will give you just that. It more like a sport query for all of your sports questions.

Belkin Wireless USB

Want to connect four devices wireless to your computer while only using one device. This is where the Belkin Wireless USB comes in. It solves the need for more USB ports and ends the cable clutter problem around your computer. I wouldn't rely too much on the wireless distance capability until new models come out. But it still does live to it's reputation. I just wished it was priced reasonably.

Firefox 3.0 Beta

IE will be in the dust again when the new Firefox 3.0 comes out. Think of having a browser with anti virus protection, pop up blocker and spyware all in one browser. Firefox is ahead of it's predicessors.

Breast Cancer Notebooks

CompUSA is selling the Sony VAIO pink notebooks to benefit the breast foundation. It's for a great cause.
If you in the market for a new pink Sony notebook, please consider the purchase.

ZoneAlarm Force Field

Get ready for a new type of Zone Alarm software. It supposet to protect you while your surf, shop and browse around the internet. Prevents people from stealing information from your computer and while you shop online. Let's hope that this company can stand behind this product beliefs.

Old Computer Cases

The next time your ready to throw out your old computer CPU. Think again. They're just might be new uses for that worn out computer boxes you've been using for years. You can be surprise on the things that you can use that old box for.

Windows XP License is coming to an end

Sad to say that the Windows XP operating system is coming to an end. Microsoft has come out with an end date to stop selling XP licenses until June of 2008. So you choices are simple. Stack up with copies of the old operating system until a new operating system comes out. Out switch to Vista, which will eventually be another Windows ME.

Portalbe GPS Jammer

Your friends are going to hate you for purchasing one of these items, but it does assure you that you can get rid of those annoying people talking on their cell phones.

More online Dictionaries

Here are more online dictionaries to help you understand the universal language.

Links:
Dict
Poltran
Word Reference
Wiki

Multi Language Dictionary

Learning a new language, then you might want to have around a multi language dictionary to help you understand words you still don't know.

A Record Player 20 years too late

Nice portable record player. It's a shame that it came twenty years late. I don't see why someone will want to purchase this mini player, but it can replace that bulky turntable.

Flashy Mp3 Clip Player

MP3 Players are getting smaller and fashionable. I am just waiting to see these little amazing gadgets increase in storage capacity.

v.Smile

Want your young children to learn about computers. This is where v.Smile comes in. It's an educational learning center for children to learn using computers.

Learn a Language online for free

Want to learn a new language. Then try it online for free. It's the best way to communicate with the rest of the world.

Coke Chill Factor

I've talk about this new invention a while back for beer. But I have yet to see any product on the market selling it. Now it appears that Coke is doing the same, with it's soft drinks. The concept is excellent, I just hope someone will make it happen.

Disc Painter

Tired of ugly disc labels on your favorite cd media. Here comes disc painter. It's said to be the future of label making.

Atdec Visidec Freestanding Double

Looking for a dual freestanding double monitor mount. Atdec is here to resolve your monitor mount situations.

iWear VR920

Virtual reality is finally here and the iWear VR920 is here to make your experience memorable. Jack in to virtual reality.

Office 2003 SP3

Office 2003 Service Pak 3 is just recently released. If your currently using Office 2003, it would now be a great time to update your Office Pak so that all the major current fixes are done.
It's about time.

802.11n Picks

If your looking for a new wireless 802.11n router
Here are some top great Pre-n picks:

D-Link DIR-655
D-Link
NetGear WNR854T
Netgear
Linksys WRT350N
Linksys

Wrecked Exotics

I always say, that there is always something for everyone on the world wide web. This site is full with one of a kind unique wrecks.

Google Street View

Although it's still not quite finish yet, Google street view is suppose to give you a birds eye view of the address location that you want to locate. Who knows how long it will take to map most of Google Street View.

802.11n Draft

Ready to upgrade your Wi-Fi router. 802.11n should be your next choice. A few years ago the standard was shady and most people warned that products would not be upgradable. But now the gap is closing in on 802.11n draft and all new compliant 802.11n draft should be upgradeable, just make sure it's certified compliant.

Wireless LAN Throughput by IEEE Standard
IEEE WLAN Standard Over-the-Air (OTA) Estimates Media Access Control Layer, Service Access Point (MAC SAP) Estimates
802.11b 11 Mbps 5 Mbps
802.11g 54 Mbps 25 Mbps (when .11b is not present)
802.11a 54 Mbps 25 Mbps
802.11n 200+ Mbps 100 Mbps

Reunite with old friends

Want to know what ever happened to an old classmate or friend. Easily reunite with them using these websites.
The searches help others to keep in contact with you and your friends. Fees apply and it's a little pricey, but it does come with perks.

Links:
Classmates
Reunion

Virtual Tourist

Next time you decide you want to travel. Check out this website to see what other travelers have experienced and they have to say about there trip.
Also check out these other great travel trip websites.

Links:
Global Access News
Fast Forage
Thorntree
Trip Connect
Tripup

Digital Photo Key Chain

Digital Photo key chains are poping around every where. Some of them are even capable of holding at least 70 pictures depending on the model. It's only a matter of time before storage capacity increase. To be capable to make it possible for anyone to carry around there entire photo albums.

Contacts Online

Need access to your contacts online. Forget the small address book that you've been carrying around for years. Now contacts can easily be accessed online.

Operating System Requirements

Operating System / Minimum Memory / Minimum Hard-Disk Space
Win 98 64 MB 500 MB
Win ME 96 MB 2 GB
Win 2000 Pro 96 MB 2 GB
Win XP Home 128 MB 2 GB
Win XP Pro 128 MB 2 GB
Win Vista Business 512 MB 15 GB
Win Vista Enterprise 512 MB 15 GB
Win Vista Ultimate 512 MB 15 GB
OS/2 64 MB 500

Vista Sidebar Gas Widget

Widgets are becoming very popular and this widget will do almost all that by providing you with the best gas prices in your area.

Defrag your computer automatically

This is a little tech tip to have your computer defragmented. Defragging your computer increases your computer search capabilities and gives your computer a tune up.
The best way to defrag a computer is to set it up automatically. By this we go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Schedule Tasks.
In the schedule tasks menu click on -> Add Schedule Task and once this box opens up click browse. In file name you need to type the following %systemroot%\system32\defrag.exe and click open. This will create the system a continuous defrag task that can be setup daily, weekly or monthly.

Open source laptop battery saver

This open source software will help you save at least 70% or your laptop battery life. It's an excellent app for users who need to have access to there laptop at all times.

Wifi Thefts at Airports

It's been known for a while and now it looks like more Wifi thieves are stealing valuable data information from frequent flyers.
For now, be cautious until these security issues are resolved.

Vista Hardware Compatibility List

Running Windows Vista and thinking about adding additional hardware. Take a moment to view the windows compatibility list before you buy anything. Otherwise your taking a chance that there might not be a windows Vista update for that hardware anytime soon.

Sell your computer memory

Have some memory and want to sell it so that you can buy additional memory. Here's a good store to check out. You can just sell your memory and get a check in return. Regardless what the buyout price is, at least you got rid of the memory you never plan to use again.

Note: Although this is a great place to get cash for your memory, this site is quite unreasonable when it comes to getting market value for your memory. Your best bet is to try ebay and get a better deal.

Sell your used computer or laptop computer

Done and office upgrade and now you need to get rid of your old equipment. Stop and look at this site and maybe your old hardware can bring you in some extra cash.
It's not for everyone.

Inflight USB power unit

If your constantly travel, this device is a must have item. You plug the device via phone jack on your airline seat and the device becomes a USB charging unit for all of your portable devices. Now you can charge your cellular phone, pda, smart phone, laptop, iPod and so on. I just hope more of these items show up every where.

Free Apps for USB Drives

Looking for USB Apps for your USB Drive. Here are a few.
Portable Apps
MakeUseOf
Directory of USB Apps

Windows Updates Stop Working

If your windows updates all of a sudden stopped working. Here is a helpful forum site to help your resolve your windows update issue.

Free iPhone Ring Tones

If you have an iPhone and use iTunes, this could be a big buck saver for you on ring tones. You'll have to go to the Mac forums to figure out on how to do this. But it's so simple that you wished you did it yourself.

Proof that iPhone Sim Free Unlocks the Phone

Do not believe everything that the cellular carriers tell you. You can unlock any phone to work with your wireless network. It just might not operate effectively.

APC Notebook Battery 70

Looking for more juice for your notebook when your on the road. You might want to consider the APC Notebook Battery 70. It adds another 1.8 pounds to your laptop. But with extra power to last up to six hours.

Disable Vista Annoying Permission

Although I highly recommend not to do this. Here is the tweak.
Go to Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts -> all you do then is look for the Turn User Account Control on or off. And disable it.

Widget Callwave SMS

Need to send a text message via cellular phone. No need to do that anymore. Send it via your desktop using the SMS widget.

Widget Magic Folder

Need to file folders onto your computer. Now be able to do it at ease with the magic folder widget. All you do is download and install the program and drop and drag files into your file folder. Simple and easy.
Still need help, then use the tutorial video Link

Printer Forums

Have a problem with your printer and vendor website is not helpful. This is where the forums come in. All you do is type in your printer make and model number and hope that someone has resolved that problem.

Flexible OTFT Film

Get ready for a new type of film that when bent still displays a picture. If everything goes as planned. This new technology will change future photography for film, pdf and e-books.

Microsoft Vista SP 1 Beta View

If you have Windows Vista and want to know what's required in Microsoft Service Pak 1.
Here is the beta view.

Metro PCS to buy Leap Wireless

If your unfamiliar with Metro PCS it's simple. It's an south eastern cellular phone carrier that offers unlimited calls with long distance for under $50- a month. No commitment and you pay what you pay for. It's basically the best inexpensive cellular solution when you just need to be connected, on the cheap.
If this purchase goes through, let's just say now Metro PCS will be able to expand into other big cities and its service and reliability should eventually get better within time.
Even though the service is spotty. I must admit it's an offer most can't refuse.
Metro PCS Plans Link
Leap Wireless information Link

Working Hard Drive

If your ever asked what a hard drive looks like. Here is a great video that shows you what a hard drive looks like and how it works.

Music to your blog

If you have a blog and want to add music to your blog. Here's the site to do this.
Just copy the html code and paste it onto your blog and presto your blog will have the latest video playing your favorite song.

Secunia

Here's another personal software inspector. It just reassures that the software your downloading is coming directly from the site it should be coming from. Now you don't have to worry if your downloading spyware or adware.

Walk Score

Next time you move or ready to buy a house, you might want to try out walk score. This site will tells you whats near in your neighborhood and how far everything is. Like where is the nearest restaurant, grocery store, park, coffee shops, bars, drug store, clothing store, library and book store. Walk Score is your answer to what's around in your area before you rent or buy.

Community Walk

Need a map of your neighborhood for locations of supermakets, restaurants or landmarks. This is where community walk comes in. These maps are made by people in their communities mapping out locations.

Hopstop

Need direction on the go. Take a look at hopstop, where you find bus and transportation routes on the go. More like a portable map for your cellular phone.

Update Checker

I've used in the past these update checker programs. Although I am not a great fan of doing software updates, it's sure solve the problem of doing updates manually.

Joost

Enjoy television when you want to watch television. If Joost becomes successful, computer PC tuner cards will be history. It's has simple has choosing the channel and browsing what your interested in.

Yapta

This is a new dollar saver search engine tool that you download to your computer and when you see a target price online. You enter it in Yapta and setup an alert and waits until the alert is reached. Great for finding price drops in airline fares, or electronic must have gadgets.

Mindmeister

Ever tried mind mapping online. Well this is a first. It some what like the Visio in Microsoft, only you instead organize your thoughts with others online.

Hello Blinkx

The next time you want to find a video of your great artist or band. Take a look at Blinkx. It will take you directly to what your looking for by searching the web for all different types of videos out there.

Zooomr

Looking for a unique photo hosting site to upload your favorite memorable photo's. Check out Zooomr. What's great about this site is that it has the capability to upload all your photo's from your hard drive into the hosting site in one batch file. Plus you have the capabilities to organize, share tools and captionize photos.

Multi Video Joiner

If you have a few videos in avi, mpg, mpg 1-4, rm, wmv format and want to be able to join them together endlessly, without having any format issues. Take a look at AVI/MPEG/RM/WMV Joiner. It's not free, but it will simplify your various movie formats.

Re-Install Windows Guides

This is an excellent site for users who need the hands on experience to learn how to re-install Windows on to your laptop or Personal Computer.
Try the emulation mode, which goes through step by step.

Search without Google

Here are a few search sites that you can use instead of Google.

Link:
Ask
Aftervote
Can't Find on Google
Chacha.com
Clusty
Draxe
Kosmix
Nettrekker
RollyO
Stumbleupon
Technorati

Smoothwall

Looking for a powerful firewall. Take a look at Smoothwall, a Linux based firewall. It has an easy setup and it's simple to configure your network.

T-Mobile Hotspot @ Home

Get calls free over Wi-Fi. But your going to have to be a geek and resolve how to tweak the new technology for T-Mobile's unlicensed mobile access.
What the system does is that it enables you to make free calls via a UMA enabled cell phone that's on a Wi-Fi network. As long as your call started on a Wi-Fi it's free, any place else, then your counting down your minutes.

Drobo

Get ready for a new type of storage. A chassis that holds up to four SATA drives, with lights that warn you if a hard drive is bad, or full. Better yet it even takes several different types of SATA hard drives. Although it's not cheap. It makes storage solutions a breeze.

iPod Shuffle

Have an iPod Shuffle, here is a nice accessory to carry your portable player where ever you want to go.

Smartphone backup for $6.00

Have a smartphone but with no backup. Don't fear, because there is free software known as BitPim that will help you backup all your important information from your smartphone.

Pay Pass

I while back I spoke about an easy Pay Pass to be used via cellular phone. Citibank has joined the family and now you can use your Citibank card if your a Citibank customer and pay just like a debit card without swiping your card into an electronic card reader. Users can then pay for their transactions the same way people use their debit cards. Pay Pass is the future in credit cards.

Upgrade your Laptop

If your upgrading your Laptop to a new hard drive. You'll find it difficult to transfer your old files to your new hard drive. This is where Apricon comes in. You'll find everything from new hard drive upgrade kits to laptop file transfer software and cables. Laptop upgrading will now be a breeze.

Guardware

If your job is monitoring employee internet policy. Guardware is a piece of hardware you might want to take a look at. It scans a computer through a USB port and searches for inappropriate materials on company owned equipment. The results is simple. To keep employees from downloading and installing garbage on company equipment. Saving storage space and program viruses that can infect your server environment.

Linux iPhone Killer Wannabee

Get ready Apple for a Linux iPhone Killer Wannabee. At least it's open source and hopefully it's price will be below Apple's hyped iPhone. Let's see who now will develop more applications for there new phone.